Depression is a mental state where the person becomes focused on their feelings, almost to the exclusion of everything else, even to the point of being self-centered. It can lead to a complete lack of concern for anything except themselves, making them appear selfish. Unfortunately, now, society is teaching everyone that depression is a disease, instead of recognizing it as a natural trigger, to get us to change something in our life to make it better. It's not a disease, it is a trigger that is telling us that something in our life is not okay. Please note, it is possible that the person may feel unhappiness and even severe unhappiness to the point that they consider (and sometimes complete) suicide. The thing is that, as their monumental unhappiness will often predictably execute at least a certain set of action, they are probably living in a depressing environment. If I am the person who is depressed, the solutions I will create for my life will be derived from identifying the real issue for my depression, and taking action to change, so I develop/replace the corresponding external stimuli. I can never forget that famous people who did suicide most of those just had therapists telling them depression is a disease and committed to mind altering pharmaceutical drugs that twofold exacerbated the problem.
Accepting depression and passivity only helps reinforce their negative pathways, and people must be encouraged to find the 'bad' source of their emotions, and act upon them, instead of using their feelings of depression as a reason/excuse as to why they know their own life is failing. Ultimately, depression is "a belief", and if you don't believe in being depressed - it simply cannot hurt you. In essence, depression is a state of thinking created from our belief systems and thinking. If someone didn't believe they were depressed, they wouldn't suffer from the consequences of being so. We must see that our mental and emotional health could greatly depend on our beliefs and thinking.
By switching to positive beliefs and attitudes, we could protect ourselves from the onset of depression. If we allow hindering beliefs and thoughts to consume us, we may struggle with hopelessness and hopelessness. We must realize we all have the potential to change beliefs or patterns of thought, and through this potential, we can manifest a life how we want it to be and not let 'depression' take hold.
It is crucial to understand that beliefs and thoughts are vital to your mental and emotional health. By developing positive beliefs and attitudes, it is possible to avoid the range of negative effects of depression. If you allow negative beliefs and thoughts to govern your mind, you will eventually find yourself struggling to manage sadness, despair, and feelings of helplessness. It is also important to remember that you are the one who controls your thoughts and beliefs, and by actively deciding to change them in a more positive direction, you can alter your experiences and prevent the slipping into depression.
I believe depression can only be real if it is caused by real damage to the brain. So, if we take brain damage or any physiological or neurological cause out of the equation, I personally do not believe we can call depression a "real" condition. Therapeutic professionals often refer to so called "clinical depression" as a collection of symptoms that they will tie to and include in the "clinical depression" diagnosis. Rather, I think that many people who are clinically depressed, are just going through something in their life, and if they can fix or resolve the issue in their life, their depression will go away. I do not claim to be a clinically depressed person, when you believe in depression, you lose power. I prefer to believe in discipline because discipline gives me power over my own life. I believe that if you can move fast enough, you can always outrun depression. We can think of the comparison to scary ghost stories. If you don't believe in ghosts, a haunted house can never harm you. Likewise, if you don't believe in things like depression that take your power away, you can never be vulnerable to it.
Failure can rebuild you and it is important to have something pushing and pulling on you physically and mentally, like working out at the gym. Every action is contributing to your assemblage of character, and seeking to be a man that can do what he wants, when he wants, is enough of a pursuit.
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